Monday, March 17, 2008
Half off sale
Last night the crowd at Fairview Heights was awesome. From the beginning of my set, to the end I had a really good time. I got an applause break for my Black name joke, and tagged it on the fly with "If you're not laughing at that it's because you're either WITH a fat white girl or you ARE a fat white girl". Then during my smoking bit, I thanked the audience for not calling me a quitter and did an impromptu act-out where I was some lame-audience member saying they were funny for calling me (Marcus) a quitter. During my Quincy Snow Routes joke, I added a part where I immediately do a local reference, but I screwed it up a bit. (Tonight, I did it properly at the Comedy Forum, and it went over really well). I accidentally did my Nervous around cute girls joke last night which meant I did not have time for my new high school dedication joke. But I did get to do that one tonight, and I moved my Abraham Lincoln impression to that bit (instead of my Mia Wallace joke); Andy Faasen told me tonight when I nail the wording that joke will be amazing. He's already told me it's his favorite of mine, which is awesome since I think Andy's a great writer; so hearing a compliment like that really means something. Anyway, the crowd tonight at the Forum was alright; certainly not as great as it has been there. I asked people to move up to the front, and some did, but a bunch told me they would and just stayed where they were. Also for the first twenty seconds or so of my set, I just stared at a lady who was on the phone in the front row. I looked at a table that moved up front and said "I told you would I wouldn't pick on the audience, so I won't". I probably should have, but live and learn, I guess. We had nineteen comics at the Forum tonight, and we started late, so the show ran a little longer than I had hoped, but the audience, other comics and Al didn't seem to mind, so I won't stress over it.